Topic: Emer III

[craggles]

Thanks - I appreciate it. I'm sure it'll be more than enough... and I'll get my daughter to practice her French too.

[Terry K. Amthor]

I'd love to see some of those maps and details and I'm sure I'm not the only one - it'll tide us over until the official Emer III and IV are released.

Most of it is written in french because it's my native language, but here you go

My session preparation notes usually are a jumble of english and french, which explains the hodgepodge you get on this site - I did not make any serious attempt at editing *sorry*.

I still have some material I did not upload - mostly maps and a handful of notes I do not want my players to see :p I add material to it as it comes - the campaign is ongoing, and I have much backlog, but time is in short supply

Beautiful site! I wish I could read French!

[MisterK]

Beautiful site! I wish I could read French!

I do not know if Google trad. has improved enough to do a moderately accurate translation job. To be honest, I have a long-term plan to translate everything into english, but it is on the backburner because of time constraints

[Zilverscale]

Waiting very patiently for this release as my Emer books are the 2 seperate books and the second edition

Do have all the old modules.

Is there newer material on the Bladestorm lands?

[Terry K. Amthor]

Waiting very patiently for this release as my Emer books are the 2 seperate books and the second edition

Do have all the old modules.

Is there newer material on the Bladestorm lands?

Emer III is actually covering a separate area of the continent, the southeast. Emer I covered the Northwest, Emer II the Northeast. After my ms of E3 is with the editor, we're discussing updates to the E1 and E2 books for PDF and Print on Demand.

As for the Bladelands, the most recent information would be in the Master Atlas 3rd or 4th Edition. Nothing significant is planned for that region in the near future.

[egdcltd]

As for the Bladelands, the most recent information would be in the Master Atlas 3rd or 4th Edition. Nothing significant is planned for that region in the near future.

So there's a potential area for someone to make a supplement for.

[Terry K. Amthor]

Heading toward my self-imposed deadline of 1-1-13, traveling the Jinteni Portal network in SE Emer now... I may get those Ahrenreth Citadels in there after all...

[Terry K. Amthor]

I must say, been on a roll the last few days, gotten a few thousand words down. Digging back into the Tower of Vour/Ahren-Lyax today. Hope to be very close to meeting my 1/1/2013 deadline. Lots of NPC charts to do though... 

[markc]

 You are a machine keep it up.
MDC

[Terry K. Amthor]

Oh my goodness, I am just about to step through the PIllar of Glass and leave the Tower of Vour (aka the Ahren-Lyax) and enter the final great citadel of SE Emer: the Ahrenaek, home of A-kesh the Artificer. It is a sprawling place, but I do have a rough sketch that Randae Terisonen left me…

(and then all those tedious NPC charts need to be finished, but I can knock those out...)

[Alten]

Now in the final straight line Terry rolls a high-open-ended Adrenal Writing roll! It"s a beautiful sight to behold and I'm sure all posters are with us as we voice our support to him! Keep it up Terry, all Kulthea-lovers are with you!

[Terry K. Amthor]

I have just a bunch of already-drawn layouts to scan and label, the Ahrenaek to draw, and of course, those nagging NPC/Beast/Military charts to finish (yes, they have all been started, and they go on forever). I see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Or is that an oncoming ship barreling towards me in the Grotto Path, on fire after being attacked? Where's Randae when I need him?  --TKA

[RandalThor]

Right he......oh, different Rand.   

[Terry K. Amthor]

Today's mantra: "I am not allowed to watch my latest 'Babylon 5' DVD until I finish the Ahrenaek… I am not allowed to watch my…"

On the positive side, I reversed my earlier decision about leaving out layouts of the two Ahrenreth Citadels (for a later book) because the thing was getting too big. I was informed that it wasn't an issue. With just the text looking like 150 pp, with the layouts, illustrations, maps and the NPC/Beast Charts (ugh, the final indignity!) I think we are closing in on 200 pages! Yay! I know you all have waited a long time, and I appreciate your patience! But once this beast is out the door, I have lots of other SW things I want to get on.

[RandalThor]

But once this beast is out the door, I have lots of other SW things I want to get on.[/color][/size]

Like, for instance....?

[Terry K. Amthor]

But once this beast is out the door, I have lots of other SW things I want to get on.[/color][/size]

Like, for instance....?

I had been working on the layout of the Dansart citadel, and I have been pulling all the old Shadow World modules (those written by me; I don't have files on the others) out of my archives for updating and re-release. Many were done in PageMaker and I needed to not only get them off the old CDs (which actually do go bad), but convert the PM files to InDesign before they were unuseable.

[markc]

 Yes CD's have a 15-20 year life span. But saying that I would try and redo them every 10 years at the min.
MDC

[Guillaume]

Definitely 10 Years.

I have so many archive CD gone bad after about 10+ years that I stopped counting.

The 20 Year lifespan is in an ideal laboratory environment : in a controlled temperature room, protected from any light.

The only physical device that has a decent lifespan is the Optical Disk ( basically it's a laser enhanced removable hard disk ).
All the other will have to be refreshed every 5/10 years ( yes even the new SSD/Flash stuff, they have to be refreshed too every few years )

[markc]

 From memory flash drives are meant for short term storage and not for log term storage as data can be lost/degrade over time. It may not be a big deal for word docs but it is a big deal for picts.
MDC

[Terry K. Amthor]

Definitely 10 Years.

I have so many archive CD gone bad after about 10+ years that I stopped counting.

The 20 Year lifespan is in an ideal laboratory environment : in a controlled temperature room, protected from any light.

The only physical device that has a decent lifespan is the Optical Disk ( basically it's a laser enhanced removable hard disk ).
All the other will have to be refreshed every 5/10 years ( yes even the new SSD/Flash stuff, they have to be refreshed too every few years )

I've also found an amazing variation in the life of my CD/DVDs; I don't know if it has anything to do with buying better quality ones from the beginning or not (though I would hope so). I wish there was some nifty software that would let you just feed all your old archive disks in one after the other, it compiles all your files, an lets you burn all new ones with better use of space (I have all these poorly-labeled disks with duplications). I guess I should be happy I have this inexpensive software (CD Finder) that read in all my disks and now I can search for files without having to rummage through the disks every time.